Be a Warrior Queen: rsvps

I am so excited!! Last week, we sent out our wedding invites and the RSVPs have started pouring in!!

Tastefully scribbled out the address / guest name :P

I made our invitations and RSVP cards myself using Photoshop. I printed the invites at Vistaprint because I got a Groupon, and the RSVP cards through Kinkos. [I print everything at Kinkos...]. The RSVP cards were postcard size so all they had to do was fill out the front and stick it in the mail!!

I am so happy and surprised that people already started replying (I was sure people would procrastinate). I am sure we will still be receiving cards in March, though.

Our first RSVP :)

I was so ecstatic when we got our first RSVP card, that I posted a status on Facebook. I should have known that this would spark problems. People started replying to the status saying that they had never received an invitation...because they weren't invited.

Maybe my thoughts on this are irrational, although, I have been told they are not. But excuse me, what? Why would you write something negative on my exciting status? Why couldn't you just say "Woo Hoo!" like it, or just ignore it?

We're having a large wedding. There are 200 guests - most of them family members, our bridal party and then a few friends that we see regularly. My definition of regularly would be "whenever we are in the area." Therefore, we invited some of our friends from up north that we see every few months, some Ohio friends that I see once every few years, but talk to often, etc. Unfortunately, we weren't able to invite everyone - not even some of our oldest friends. To counter this, we've decided to do a barhop in the evening after our reception. Most of our friends are understanding and attending this festivity.

Can someone please explain to me why someone would publicly say that they didn't receive an invitation?

Personally, I would never say something to someone about not being invited to their wedding unless
a) they're a close family member, or b)they're one of my closest friends that I see/talk to daily.

If I were to say something, I would definitely be doing it in a private way...most likely through a phone call (but I suppose text or Facebook message could work, too). But publicly? On my excited status? It makes me feel so weird.

I, of course, then had to make some embarrassed statement saying we couldn't afford to invite anyone besides family when I shouldn't even be embarrassed at all! We are paying for this wedding ourselves! We've lived at my mom's house for the past year, saving money. Iman is still driving his car that could break down anytime to save money. I worked 70 hour weeks to save money.

But, I decided not to let this negative reaction taint my excitement at our RSVP replies!!! :)

With these replies flooding in, I found renewed energy for planning. Today I am heading to Macy's to fix our registry items (what a pain!), tomorrow meeting with someone to get our rehearsal dinner planned, Sunday hopefully asking our officiant and Monday we are hoping to do our food tasting!

65 days till the wedding!

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